35. MetroCard

Original Airdate: February 16th, 1991

The legendary Phil Hartman cuts a unique figure in comedy, his stock in trade being characters that are ostensibly straight-laced on the surface, but utter jackasses just underneath – from Troy McClure on the Simpsons to Bill McNeal on Newsradio. So while the MetroCard commercial spoof gets big laughs simply by letting Hartman and host Roseanne Barr be a predictable contrast of rough and smooth, but the genius is in how their different accounts of the same phone call slowly reveal Hartman as an unreliable narrator.